--- title: Christians believe God always keeps his promises ("he who promised i… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe God always keeps his promises ("he who promised is faithful", Hebrews 10:23); a promise broken by a real emergency, honestly explained, is not a lie. Who acts: Christians, God, promise. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, God, promise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:7 # text = Christians believe God always keeps his promises ("he who promised is faithful", Hebrews 10:23); a promise broken by a real emergency, honestly explained, is not a lie. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 086-keeping-promises.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 always always ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Hebrews hebrew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 18 10:23 10:23 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 23 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 explained explain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **keep** | present | God | God's promises | | | | Hebrews 10:23 *obl*; always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | past | God | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | God *not said here* | | | | | faithful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **break** | participle | | a promise *not said here* | | | | by a real emergency | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by emergency=Location | | 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* | participle | | a promise *not said here* | | | | honestly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **is a** | present | a promise | a lie | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **promise** | | God | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Keeping promises, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/6/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)